18/ What can we do about this? You can’t just yell at people “choose Atomization over Circled Wagons” and you can’t guarantee that a more open response to digital forces will lead to Resurrection rather than death.
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19/ You also can’t deny the strong need for physical community with “just get some VR goggles and get in the Nozick experience machine already.” Human desire for physical community is a predictor for adaptation success. Less desire = more success at the moment.
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20/ In terms of adaptive fitness in digitally transformed social landscapes, the total pole of psychological health is probably Resurrected > Precipitated > Atomized > Circled Wagons.
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21/ This adaptation scale is partly due to the fact that those who most strongly desire physical community are also the most scared of losing it, and therefore scared to try bolder cultural practices of transformation that risk death of the community.
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22/ For Circled Wagon types, fear of ending up Atomized far exceeds allure of ending up Resurrected, so they largely don’t try. Stick to the community forms you know. Except for alienated kids in basements who know they have too many decades of life left for it to work out.
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23/ An interesting tech challenge is working more on Resurrection and Precipitation products. This might increase the confidence of Circled Wagon types, assuage their (unacknowledged under bluster) fears and give them the sense of security to try more open adaptation.
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24/ It is really pathetic that in the last couple of decades the best we’ve been able to do with Precipitation tech is meetup dot com. There is no good Resurrection tech that I know of, besides randomly finding old school friends you actually want to reconnect with on Facebook.
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Replying to @vgr
Good sir what about online dating?! That has got to be the biggest win of precipitation tech. Maybe you opted out of that game early :P There's been a couple LA based efforts to find new people via digital things though seemed to have largely failed: https://beta.techcrunch.com/2013/11/07/social-network-at-the-pool-relaunches-on-mobile-with-an-app-to-better-connect-nearby-friends/ …
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Replying to @patwater
Haha yes I met my wife IRL :) Agreed, it’s a huge precipitation tech, but for n=2, so not quite community-seeding.
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Replying to @vgr
Yeah there was Grouper which was a 3 + 3 group date thing though not sure if it really took off / still is a thing Also the ribbonfarm community seems like an excellent precipitation example so maybe time to double down on VenkatBot already :P
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That’s mainly just an overlay on Bay Area and mostly unintended. This stuff is hard to do intentionally.
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Very true. I feel tech types underestimate the power of meatspace institutions to galvanize communities rather than rely on intrinsic interest and self selection. Say this national service year was a thing: http://time.com/4824366/year-national-service-americorps-peace-corps/ … Foundation for lifelong connections
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